2017...

Guarded optimism...that's what this pooch makes me think as I sit and attempt to read her mind while I have 42,000 other productive things to do...I often think about what life is like for those who communicate differently from me - complicated utterances of clicks & melodic songs, exotic foreign tongue or indecipherable political double speak. Do we work as diligently to understand one another as we do to disagree with one another? It's so easy to get wrapped up in our own vainglorious philosophies (yea, we all do it) that we forget how to just sit, watch & listen...

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." -Epictetus